Hi Arjan,

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:52:15PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
> 
> I maintain the haskell-filepath Debian source package from which the
> following packages are build:
> 
> haskell-filepath-doc - API documentation of the Haskell FilePath library
> libghc6-filepath-dev - GHC 6 library for manipulating FilePath's
> libghc6-filepath-prof - GHC 6 profiling library for manipulating FilePath's
> libhugs-filepath - Hugs library for manipulating FilePath's
> 
> 
> As GHC 6 now ships the Filepath package I am a little bit unsure what to
> do with my packages. Should I a keep on building the binary packages for
> GHC 6 or should I replace them by dummy packages which depend on the
> appropriate binary packages of ghc6?

You should neither build them nor make dummy packages;
 ghc6 provides libghc6-filepath-dev,
 ghc6-prof provides libghc6-filepath-prof and
 ghc6-doc provides libghc6-filepath-doc
so everything should Just Work.

> It would be nice if Hugs would also start shipping filepath, so I could
> drop the libhugs-filepath package as well. Maybe Ross can comment on
> that?

As Neil says, that will happen with the next hugs release AIUI.


Thanks
Ian


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